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Staten Island, NY - Wagner will look to return to its winning ways when the Seahawks host the Blue Devils of Central Connecticut St. in a 7:00 pm NEC clash at the Spiro Sports Center.

Media Information 
The Wagner-Central Connecticut St. game will be televised on a taped delay basis on Time-Warner Cable. Wayne Fidelman will be the play-by-play man, while Joe Nugent and Tim Gannon will provide color analysis. Tara Petrolino will serve as sideline reporter. The game will air locally at 8:30 pm on Friday, January 30 on Time Warner Cable channel SI76. It can also be seen by Time Warner Cable subscribers anytime beginning Friday evening on Local On Demand channel 1111 in the five boroughs, North Bergen, NJ and Mount Vernon, NY. The game will also be available 24 hours a day, seven days per week until November, 2009 on channel 1111

The Matchup
The Wagner College men's basketball team (10-9, 3-6 NEC) will look to snap its three-game losing streak vs. the Central Connecticut St. Blue Devils (9-10, 5-4 NEC) under the direction of veteran head coach Howie Dickenman. These teams met back on Jan. 8 in New Britain, CT and CCSU came away with a 67-57 victory. This is the 28th meeting between the two programs, Wagner holds a 14-13 lead in the all-time series and the Blue Devils have won four of the last five meetings. Wagner, however, has won four of the last five meetings on Staten Island. Wagner is the only team in the NEC to feature four players who average in double figures in Jamal Smith (13.6), Joey Mundweiler (13.5 ), Llew Radford (12.4) and Justin Drummond (10.1). Drummond, a 6-6 point guard, leads the team in assists (3.7), steals (30) and blocks (19). CCSU went 1-1 last week, dropping a 64-62 decision at the Mount before rebounding quickly to top Quinnipiac 59-55 at home on Saturday. This marked the sixth straight home win for CCSU, which now stands at 6-1 at home. After playing at Wagner and at Sacred Heart, CCSU will play six of their final seven league games at home. Sophomore forward Ken Horton paces the Blue Devils at 17.9 ppg. while sophomore guard Shemik Thompson checks in at 10.9 points per game.

The Coaches
Wagner College head coach Mike Deane is in his 25th season as a head coach and his sixth as the head man of the Seahawks. Deane holds an overall coaching mark of 426-302, having eclipsed the 400-win plateau last season. His 416 wins entering the season ranked him 27th among all active coaches. In his sixth season at Wagner, Deane is 82-78 on Grymes Hill. In 2007-08, Wagner delivered a memorable and milestone season, recording a 23-8 overall record and a 15-3 mark in the NEC, which was good for second place. The 23 wins set a school record for most wins in a season, besting the old mark of 21 wins accomplished on three occasions, 1967-68, 1978-79 and 2002-03. Howie Dickenman has compiled a record of 201-171 in his 12-plus seasons at the helm of the Blue Devil program. A 1970 CCSU graduate, Dickenman has guided the Blue Devils to three NEC championships and entered the season with the sixth-best winning percentage (.629) in NEC play in league history. 

Wagner-Sacred Heart Recap (Jan. 25)
Sacred Heart held off Wagner 68-64 in a wild and wooly affair that featured four ties and 13 lead changes in front of a frenzied, school-record crowd of 2,338 fans at the Spiro Sports Center. SHU took a 40-38 lead at the half as both teams came out blazing from the field, with Wagner hitting 58 percent of its shots in the opening half with the Pioneers shooting 55 percent. A three-point jumper by Joey Mundweiler eight seconds into the second stanza put Wagner up 41-40 and ignited an 18-7 spurt that staked the Seahawks to a 56-47 lead with 10:01 left to play. Included in the 18-7 Seahawk run was a 7-0 stretch when Wagner held the Pioneers scoreless for 6:31. A Shane Gibson layup with 9:14 left began a 14-4 SHU run that was capped by a Joey Henley dunk which put the Pioneers back on top at 61-60 with 4:06 remaining. Llew Radford made the second of two free throws with 3:51 to go, knotting at 61-61. A Mundweiler three-point jumper from the left corner appeared to go halfway down before spinning out. Jerrell Thompson then countered with a jump shot with 3:06 to play put SHU up for good at 63-61. The Pioneers then made their share of big plays down the stretch in ending the game with a 7-3 spurt that carried them to victory. Hardy supplied the bulk of the offense in the opening half for SHU as by scoring 21 first-half points on the strength of 5-of-6 shooting from three-point range. He wound up 8-of-11 overall from the field, 6-of-8 from long range while power forward Joe Henley supplied the muscle on the inside with 18 points and 10 rebounds. Jamal Smith paced Wagner with 16 points and added four rebounds and four steals. Mundweiler led Wagner in the opening with nine points on 3-of-3 shooting from beyond the arc and finished 4-of-8 from long range en route to a 14-point performance. Drummond played a solid floor game and finished with 12 points, five assists and a career-high five steals.

Mundweiler Movin' On Up
Fifth-year senior guard Joey Mundweiler made the most of his trip to his home state on Dec. 30, scoring 17 points, including the 1,000th point of his career, in front of a host of friends and family members vs. Kansas St. In a classy gesture, Kansas St. presented Mundweiler with the game ball after the game in recognition of his accomplishment. Mundweiler, who enters the CCSU game 28th on the Wagner all-time list with 1,110 points, reached another milestone in Wagner's win over FDU on Jan. 5 when he cracked the NEC all-time Top 10 in career three pointers made. Mundweiler has now drained 267 three-pointers which place him T-7th all-time in NEC history. His 267 made three pointers leave him three behind the school-record 270 made by Dedrick Dye (1999-2003). He is already No.1 in all-time three-pointers attempted with 736.

NEC Career Leaders - Three-Pointers Made
1. Tristan Blackwood CCSU 328 2004-08
2. Chris McGuthrie Mount St. Mary's 300 1993-96
3. Angel Santana St. Francis (NY) 294 1996-00
4. James Williams Long Island 277 2003-07
5. Justin Chiera CCSU 274 2002-06
6. Dedrick Dye Wagner 270 1999-03
7. Joey Mundweiler Wagner 267 2004-08
Landy Thompson Mount St. Mary's 267 2002-06
9. Kevin Booth Mount St. Mary's 265 1989-93 10.Dave Calloway Monmouth 260 1987-91

Mundweiler No.1 Active Three-Point Shooter in NEC
Joey Mundweiler's 267 made three-pointers are No.1 among
active NEC players in three-pointers made.

Active NEC Career Leaders
1. Joey Mundweiler Sr.Wagner 267
2. Jeremy Chappell Sr.Robert Morris 207
3. Jamaal Womack Sr. St.Francis (NY) 191
4. Ryan Litke Jr. Sacred Heart 153
5. Joe Seymore Jr. CCSU 137
6. Cale Nelson Sr. Saint Francis (PA) 135
7. Grant Surprenant Sr. Saint Francis(PA) 127
8. Marquis Ford Sr. Saint Francis (PA) 121

Smith Cracks Top 30 in Scoring, Joins 1,000-Point, 500-Rebound Club
Fifth-year senior forward Jamal Smith has moved up to 23rd on the all-time scoring list with 1,163 career points entering the Sacred Heart game, Smith became the 64th overall player and the eighth Wagner player to hit for the 1,000/500 combination since the inception of the NEC in 1982-83.
23. Jamal Smith (2004-)                 1163
24. Courtney Pritchard (2000-04)... 1147
25. Durell Vinson (2003-08).......... 1144
26. Oliver Featherston (1966-69)... 1129
27. Harry Orlando (1957-60)......... 1117
28. Joey Mundweiler (2004-)     1096
29. Tony Rice (1992-95).............. 1101
30. Greg Clay (1980-85).............. 1099

Smith, Mundweiler Among Top-Five in Active NEC Scoring
1. Jeremy Chappell Sr. Robert Morris 1627
2. Joey Henley Sr. Sacred Heart 1191
3. Jamal Smith Sr. Wagner 1163
4. Joey Mundweiler Sr. Wagner 1110
5. Jeremy Goode Jr. Mount St.Mary's 1103

Llew Double-Double
Radford leads the team in rebounding at 8.2boards per game (third in the NEC) while Drummond is the assist leader at 3.67per game. Radford has posted six double-doubles in his career, second in the NEC, with all six coming this season. In The muscular 6-4 Radford, one of the most improved players in the NEC, having averaged 5.1 points per game last season, has scored in double figures in 14 of Wagner's 19 games and is shooting 51 percent from the field.

Balanced Threats
Wagner continues to receive great offensive balance and enters the week as one of two teams in the NEC (Quinnipiac) that boast four players averaging double figures. Fifth-year senior forward Jamal Smith holds team-high scoring honors (13.6) followed by fifth-year senior guard Joey Mundweiler (13.5), senior forward Llew Radford (12.5) and fifth-year senior point guard Justin Drummond (10.0). Radford leads the team in rebounding at 8.2 boards per game (third in the NEC) while Drummond is the assist leader at 3.7 per game.

P.J. Returns
On Sun., Jan. 25 vs. Sacred Heart, it was Alumni Day on Grymes Hill as Wagner honored the 30-year anniversary of the 1978-79 squad that went 21-7 and reached the NIT. The head coach of that team, P.J. Carlesimo, as well as several of the players from that memorable unit were on hand for the festivities.

Czeski Shines
Redshirt sophomore guard T.J. Czeski responded to his first career start vs. Sacred Heart (1/25) by registering career highs in points (7), rebounds (5), assists (4) and minutes played (37).